NAC, privacy alert!

[Brett Dikeman]

At 12:25 PM -0500 4/8/03, Todd Young wrote:

>Luckily today I became aware that if you type a phone number on the
>search engine www.google.com it comes up with your name, address and
>directions to
>your location via map quest. These maps are extremely accurate.

Guess what?  You can do the same thing at dozens of other websites
including switchboard.com.

>   Any person wanting to discover the physical location of a listed
>phone number can use this feature to locate directions from anywhere
>in the country.

So?

>  This is especially dangerous if you have children chatting on the internet.

So is your kid giving out their phone number while talking to
strangers.  Didn't you tell your kids "don't talk to strangers, on
the phone, in public, or on the internet"?

This is the kind of crap that just amazes me- like the "drive slowly,
children in the neighborhood!" signs that are popping up everywhere-
my tax dollars at work.  Heaven forbid parents should control their
#$@! kids so they don't go running out into the road.

We can't child-proof the world, real or virtual.  Get over it, and
realize as a parent, at the end of the day, the buck stops with YOU.
YOU are responsible for your kid's safety.  Not "the gov'mint", not
the internet, not google, not AOL, not the phone company.  YOU.

</rant>

B
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